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"From another thread:
Someone wrote: "If you see awareness as the untouchable ground of being
then things can come and go within it but not have their own existence
apart from awareness - but awareness can exist without them. If on
the other hand you see appearances as being modulations of awareness
then there is a sense in which you could say that awareness is always
'modulating' in one way or another. So in this way of looking there is
always awareness and it always has some kind of appearance - because
appearance is an essential aspect of being and to suggest that either
being or appearance could exist separately would be incoherent."
I
think a got the whole thing now!! You see, above, you are still
projecting "things" AND an "awareness". Even when you posit an awareness
that modulates itself, there is still a notion that somehow there is an
Awareness that is subtly different from things. Look at it. Why the
need to talk about an Awareness that is OTHER than things, and that
modulates itself? Only Awareness is!! The flow of ever changing things
is what Awareness is!!!
Many here have had this realization, but
every now and then, because of the wrong view, such realization slips
away and a background is questioned. There is no background AND a
foreground. If you use the word god, then there is only god. NOT god AND
his creation. The whole thing downed to me this morning. See?"
"When Soh says that he is not denying awareness, sounded strange to me.
But considering the OP line of inquiry, it seems obvious that the
"awareness" that soh is not denying is not some OTHER awareness separate
from things. But maybe he could have been clearer by explaining that
the non-negated awareness he is referring to, is just another name for
the flux of phenomena, or perhaps what "buddha mind" means. Certainly it
is not some ongoing self-abiding ground awareness."
I said,
"Yes good Geovani Geo. As john tan wrote years back:
“What is presence now? Everything... Taste saliva, smell, think, what
is that? Snap of a finger, sing. All ordinary activity, zero effort
therefore nothing attained. Yet is full accomplishment. In esoteric
terms, eat God, taste God, see God, hear God...lol. That is the first
thing I told Jax few years back when he first messaged me 😂
If a mirror is there, this is not possible. If clarity isn't empty,
this isn't possible. Not even slightest effort is needed. Do you feel
it? Grabbing of my legs as if I am grabbing presence! Do you have this
experience already? When there is no mirror, then entire existence is
just lights-sounds-sensations as single presence. Presence is grabbing
presence. The movement to grab legs is Presence.. the sensation of
grabbing legs is Presence.. For me even typing or blinking my eyes. For
fear that it is misunderstood, don't talk about it. Right understanding
is no presence, for every single sense of knowingness is different.
Otherwise Jax will say nonsense... lol. When there is a mirror, this is
not possible. Think I wrote to longchen (Sim Pern Chong) about 10 years
ago.” - John Tan"
"John Tan wrote in 2012:
"An interesting
comment Jax. After realization...Just eat God, breathe God, smell God
and see God...Lastly be fully unestablished and liberate God.""